I am sending this via the dreaded windows as my attempt to start my laptop this evening leaves me with a blank screen after the blue sabayon flash on boot up. The system is not dead as I can use the power button to power off but I nothing else happens. I did the auto update last night and it had completed in the morning when I then powered off to go to work.

Can anyone give me any idea how to find out what has happened?Can I revert to prior the update?

ThanksRobert

Last edited by rekinchin on Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:48, edited 1 time in total.

Try hitting alt + ctrl + F7 to see if it's just not switching to the right virtual terminal. If that doesn't do anything, try alt + ctrl + f2 (or another F+number) to get to a plain terminal. Log in as root and check to make sure you didn't leave a config file update undone:

Something's else that I remember this morning. The update said that there was an unsupported app and I was to check it. I assumed that I was to uninstall. There were a number of dependancies mentioned. Then I tried to check the config difference it said it's made. But kwrite claimed a part was missing. I had ran out of time a that point and shut system down

I cannot get access to any repro's. I guess I don't have access to Internet. The only way I can get a shell is through grub recovery mode. I have connected directly to my modem so not using wifi. But may not have http

I've run into issues similar to this before. See if this doesn't help you out:

Boot into Safe Mode. At some point during the safe mode boot it will ask you to try and continue to boot the desktop to stop there. You'll want to stop there. Log in as root. Then we'll need remount root to have write access and start up networking management:

Once you have your networking working, you should be able to install whatever. Make sure there isn't some unfinished upgrades by doing an equo upgrade and then use equo to attempt to reinstall anything else that might be missing as I mentioned before.